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ORDER

OF

EVANGELICAL GRACE

IN

THE ECONOMY OF SALVATION;

CONTAINED IN

FOUR DIALOGUES

UPON MATTERS OF THE HIGHEST IMPORTANCE.

BY

DAVID HOLLAZ,

Pastor of the Evangelical Church of Gunthersberg, in Pomerania.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH,

WITH OCCASIONAL NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR.

"The first inan, Adam, was made a living soul; the last Adam
was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit, that was not first which
is spiritual, but that which is natural, and afterwards that which
is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second
man is the Lord from heaven," 1 Cor. xv. 45-47.

LONDON:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE TRANSLTAOR,
By J. EEDES, 14 Little Knight Rider Street, Doctors'
Commons.-Sold also by

R. BAYNES, Paternoster Row, and other Booksellers.

1838.

400.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following experimental and interesting Dialogues came into the Translator's possession some years back. At that time he had a head knowledge of the doctrines contained in them, but no heart acquaintance with the grace of those doctrines. This, working with the pride of nature, led to daring presumption, which would have precipitated his soul into the yawning gulph of eternal ruin, had not mercy prevented. But God was merciful; and, to the conviction of sin, added the gifts of repentance and faith, which, conducting to the cross of the Lord Jesus, begot in him a living hope, and eventually issued in the attainment of peace with a justly offended God. He can now subscribe to much of the experience, so faithfully and scripturally detailed in this excellent little Treatise; and being persuaded that it is a work pre-eminently fitted, as a means, under the divine blessing, to promote the increase and progress of vital religion, he humbly presents a translation of it to the public, praying that, whereever the providence of God may direct its course,

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